Coordinating Activities of the Prosecutor’s Office to Counteract and Prevent Extremism Among Migrant Workers in Modern Russia

Abstract

Introduction: at the present stage of state and law development, the formation of interstate relations of a new format takes place in the context of rather complex and contradictory processes, whose many participants, demonstrating different levels of resistance, become vulnerable to both traditional and new challenges and threats of modern history. One of these threats is extremist activity, which is a real threat to the constitutional order and national security of any state. In recent decades, such phenomena as xenophobia, separatism, religious fanaticism and terrorism, various nationalist sentiments that develop into an active movement and extremism of various etiologies have been actively developed. For Russia, as a multi-ethnic democratic state, these phenomena are particularly dangerous, since they undermine the peaceful coexistence of various ethnic and social groups. In addition, the development of information technologies makes it more accessible to carry out extremist activities among the general population. The social networks are increasingly used by the supporters of terrorism and extremism to conduct active propaganda and vigorous recruitment. In this regard, the authors of the paper set a goal to study the real state of the prosecutor’s supervision over the implementation of laws on countering extremism among migrant workers, as well as to develop new forms of coordinating activities of the prosecutor’s office to prevent and suppress acts of extremist activity in the context of modern political and economic challenges of the modern Russian state and the world as a whole. Methods: the methodological framework for this research is a set of methods of scientific knowledge, among which the main ones are the methods of synthesis, scientific generalization and comparative law analysis. Results: despite giving the Prosecutor General’s Office the power to block the sites containing extremist information and remove direct calls for extremist activity, the issue of combating this phenomenon remains particularly topical. In this regard, the importance of coordinating, organizing and implementing the effective control over countering extremist activities, and improving the activities of the law enforcement agencies headed by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation in the fight against extremism is increasing in every possible way. Conclusions: only joint, well-thought-out and well-coordinated activities, led by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, will prevent the main threats and minimize the negative impact of extremist activities on all sides, aspects and areas of functional activity of the modern Russian state, which is thus fighting not only extremism in all its manifestations, but also related phenomena, including nationalism, chauvinism, separatism, xenophobia, religious and mono-ethnic fanaticism and terrorism, as the most dangerous form of extremism.

Network crowdsourcing and youth extremism prevention: law enforcement agencies and civil society

“…Citizens' associations can arbitrarily search for extremism on the net, but law enforcement officials are not required to take note of information received from cybercriminals. The activities of cyber-workers can be legalized in the future [14]; the bill is currently being finalized. Its significance is as follows: it is proposed to create cyberforces on the initiative of citizens who have expressed a desire to oppose the spread of illegal information on the Internet, in the form of a public organization, with notification to the relevant executive authority.…”